3D
Continuing my trend of going in the opposite direction from the prevailing Horrorthon opinion, I have totally got the 3D bug. What happened? Yesterday I saw The Adventures of Tintin (which,...
View ArticleOscar Goldman’s desk?
After years of fruitless searching I think I’ve found images of Oscar Goldman’s desk (from The Six Million Dollar Man). When I was a kid, I considered this to be the El Dorado of desks. The only...
View Article2012 predictions
I’m just curious what everyone thinks. Here’s my take: Sherlock (Season 2)Already seen it (all three episodes): it’s fantastic!Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace 3DI’m more partial to the prequel...
View ArticleThe new iBooks and education
[So I had just finished posting the following comment on a technology website:] Maybe I’m in the minority but I find this whole development [Apple's new iBooks textbook technology] very disquieting. I...
View ArticleYou can’t see the actor
Minor cinematic observation: some of the best directors have used this really great counterintuitve technique at extremely dramatic moments in their movies. The protagonist is at an absolutely...
View ArticleThe Zone
Okay, let’s get into it. Here are my top ten (links are to Wikipedia pages, which have spoilers): “The Four of Us Are Dying” Not especially scary (as the Zone goes) but this one has incredible mood...
View ArticleElizabeth Drew in NYRB
Elizabeth Drew has a new piece in the New York Review of Books about Romney and the election, which deviates pretty far into the “Greenwaldian” zone of near-existential dread that used to be the...
View ArticleWatchmen prequels
So everyone’s up in arms and conflicted (including Jonathan Lethem) about DC Comics’ plans to release various Watchmen prequels. Alan Moore told the New York Times that the idea is “completely...
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